The Skin
- ISBN-10
- 0810115727
- ISBN-13
- 9780810115729
- Category
- Italian fiction
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Author
- Curzio Malaparte
Description
In The Skin, Curzio Malaparte extends the great fresco of European society he began in Kaputt. There the scene was Eastern Europe, here it is Italy during the years from 1943 to 1945; instead of Germans, the invaders are the American armed forces. In all the literature that derives from the Second World War, there is no other book that so brilliantly or so woundingly presents triumphant American innocence against the background of the European experience of destruction and moral collapse.
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